Didier Ruedin - Why Arent They There?: The Political Representation of Women, Ethnic Groups and Issue Positions in Legislatures

why arent they there?

the political representation of women, ethnic
groups and issue positions in legislatures

Didier Ruedin

Didier Ruedin 2013

First published by the ECPR Press in 2013

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Further resources from the author can be found here: http://figshare.com/articles/Political_Representation_of_Women_Ethnic_Groups_and_Issue_Positions/675917

list of abbreviations

acknowledgements

I would like to thank Steve Fisher, Sara Hobolt, Alistair McMillan, James Tilley and Matthew Bond for their support during different stages of the research leading to this publication. I would also like to thank Marc Carinci, David Rueda, John Fox, David Firth, Bernard Grofman, Anthony Heath, Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Gianni DAmato and Gallya Lahav for support and encouragement. My grateful thanks are also extended to Neli Demireva, Lily Qianhan Lin, Alexey Bessudnov, Silke Schneider, Charles Laurie, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Pr Gustafsson, Siana Glouharova, Krishna Omkar, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Thees Spreckelsen, Thomas Grund, Christina Fuhr, Rolando Ochoa Hernandez, Maria Grasso, Shreya Sarawgi, Irum Shehreen Ali, Alex Sutherland, Soomin Chung, Samina Luthfa, Sumeet Mhaskar, AJ Adrienne Rivlin, Ken Okamoto-Kaminski, Sum Yin Kwong, Maria Sobolewska, Robert Ford, Jeehun Kim, Raya Muttarak, Ping Lin, Flora Pui-Yan Lau, Declan Hill, Moonju Seong, Jing Yang, Chinnawut Techanuvat, Eline De Rooij, Carmel Hannan, Sieglinde Rosenberger, Jae-Hyeong Choi, Mona Lena Krook, Natalja Mortensen, Daniel Bochsler, Georg Lutz, Ed Fieldhouse, the anonymous reviewers, Alexandra Segerberg and staff at ECPR press, and everyone who should have been mentioned here but inadvertently has been left out. Finally, I would like to thank members of parliamentary services across the world who responded to my requests for data.